CRAWFORD CO.—It seems a man recently sentenced for beating a young girl has now beaten his wife yet again.
JODY STIFLE
Official sources say that on Sunday, December 21, 35-year-old Jody (and in some court documents, Jodi) Stifle was the subject of police inquiry when it was reported he had beaten his wife Nicole (Nikki) Gaddis Stifle by putting his hands around her neck and choking her and then taking her cell phone presumably so she could not report the attack to authorities.
Mrs. Stifle is said to have fled from her husband to her parent’s house but when authorities arrived she told police she would not cooperate.
Sources close to Mrs. Stifle tell Disclosure that she has been beaten on several occasions but lives in fear for her life if she should ever testify against her husband.
“This last time he said he was going to prison anyway so what difference did it make if he killed her,” a source told Disclosure. “She’s just to scared to speak out against him.”
In 2011 Stifle was charged with beating his wife outside the School House Gentlemen’s Club (a strip joint) in Cumberland County.
Stifle was convicted April 19 in Cumberland and sentenced to two years probation, which was violated on numerous occasions following his conviction.
Jody Stifle, of 103 S. Jackson, Oblong, came to Disclosure’s attention September 7 when at approximately 11:30 p.m. on Friday, September 7, police, responded to the 911 call at East Kentucky Street in Oblong where, upon arrival, they found 20-year-old Harlie Johnson “flopping on the road” in an apparent seizure.
Stifle was ultimately charged with one count of Aggravated Battery.
He is accused of knowingly causing great bodily harm to Johnson in that he kicked Johnson in the head with his foot.
NIKKI STIFLE
Stifle is also charged with one count of Contributing to the Delinquency of a Child which accused him of knowingly causing a child under the age of 17 [his step-daughter Chelsea Lomas], to become delinquent in that he drove her to East Kentucky St., on Oblong and so that she could fight Johnson.
Jody Stifle has an extensive violent history beginning in 1979.
Stifle was sentenced to 18 months in the Illinois Department of Corrections on a 2011 charge of Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance identified as prescription drugs.
According to online court documents, the charges stemming from the severe beating of Ms. Johnson and an additional count of Harassing a Witness remain active charges being pursued by the local prosecutor’s office.